“We’ve got to deal with the ballpark, and we’re going to be negative coming in here every day, ‘Oh, this ballpark is too big’?’’ Guillen asked incredulously.

“We’ve got to play in this ballpark 81 games and I don’t want to hear any more (from) my players, my hitting coach, nobody with this uniform worry about this place (being) too big. If they think this place is too big, let me know. I’ll put somebody else in who can hit bloopers behind shortstop.’’

Thing is, the whining will eventually work. Name me one big park that has been built in the past 20 years where players complaining about it hasn’t resulted in the fences being moved in. It happened in Comerica and Citi Field. It’s going to happen in Petco eventually. It’s b.s. — we should have some pitchers parks in this game — but that’s how it works, no matter what guys like Guillen say.

Buchholz, 33, was acquired by the Phillies from the Red Sox in December 2016, but he made only two starts before an MRI revealed he had a partial tear of his right flexor pronator mass. He underwent surgery in April and missed the rest of the season.